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Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

2 December 2017<\/p>\n

Garnett Genuis, MP
\nConservative MP for Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan
\nAlberta<\/p>\n

Cc. Matt DeCourcey, Liberal MP
\nParliamentary Secretary to Minister of Foreign Affairs<\/p>\n

Dear Garnett Genuis:<\/p>\n

Re: Your Statement in Parliament\u00a0 on Sri Lanka\u2019s Tamil Community\u00a0<\/strong>In Canada, on Nov.20th, 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I read it and I told myself, Oh, no! Here we go again.\u00a0 There were some moments of sincerity on your part, but there were much backgrounder substance that I thought were lacking in your understanding on this Tamil separatist issue, or else your question would have been authored differently.<\/p>\n

Having been involved in this issue from August 4, 1983, until August 4, 2013, when I decided to retire on this file after 30 years, I am in a position to put ourselves in a Classroom situation, I the lecturer and you the undergraduate student studying –<\/p>\n

Class 101 : Canadian-Tamils and why they\u00a0 are still\u00a0 flying out of the Koha\u2019s nest from Sri Lanka since July 1983, searching for greener pastures complaining that they have been discriminated and persecuted by the majority Sinhalese in Sri Lanka.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But before I embark on this exercise to help you understand more clearly about the Sri Lanka\u2019s Tamil mono-ethnic, racist, separatist movement to create their own<\/p>\n

separate state, Eelam<\/em><\/strong>, carved out of 33% of that island\u2019s real estate, bordered by 66% of the coastline for 12.6% of the population, let me introduce myself to you.<\/p>\n

Unlike you, I am not academically trained as a Political-scientist.\u00a0 I am a\u00a0 Geologist,<\/p>\n

Paleontologist and Museologist.\u00a0 Unlike you who went to Carleton University and London School of Economics, I am an alumni of the University of London,\u00a0 University of Wales (Swansea) and Memorial University of Newfoundland.<\/p>\n

I have sent out over 1,200 letters and articles during that 30 years of involvement to Canadian parliamentarians, Newspapers, Political journals and Political organizations like AI, and given public talks.\u00a0 Around 550 of my letters to Editors of newspapers and political journals, have been published right across Canada and abroad, and I have been interviewed on the issue on Canadian radio and TV.\u00a0 So I am no Johnny come lately on the issue.<\/p>\n

I came to Canada on October 16, 1970 during the October Crisis, having been Head-<\/p>\n

Hunted by the National Museums Corporation in Ottawa, and having found me, a liberal-scientist in London, England, and invited\u00a0 me to accept the appointment as Head of Thematic Research of the Design and Display Division for the renovation programme of the Victoria Memorial Museum, which I am sure you have visited during your Carleton University days.\u00a0 I was involved in creating 15 brand new Exhibition Halls and was the senior researcher for the Dinosaur Hall.\u00a0 I am a published, award winning poet with 19 Collections of poetry, among several awards for poetry, I was awarded the Appreciation Award for Arts and Culture by the Mayor of the City of Ottawa in 2003.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You may wonder with such a background, why the heck did I get involved in Sri Lanka\u2019s Tamil issue in Canada?\u00a0 The answer is simple.\u00a0 There was so much distortion and lies by the Tamils who arrived as Convention refugees talking ill of my Motherland, Sri Lanka, kicking, stabbing and spitting at her, who nurtured me for my first 19 years of\u00a0 my life.\u00a0 It hurt me, and I was not going to let the Tamils crap all over Sri Lanka anymore.\u00a0 Enough was enough.\u00a0 So I decided to sing my own National Anthem –<\/p>\n

O Sri Lanka, my home and native land\/ I will stand on guard for thee in Canada\u2019s land\/ And catch every Tamil bullet\u00a0 shot at you with my teeth\/<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0to save you my Mother ever more\/ and I will stand on guard for thee in the Canadian sun or snow.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So here I am trying to tell you and provide you some Tamil Facts<\/strong> of the issue now that you have acted having been told the Tamil Fairy Tales<\/strong>. I swear that what I tell you is the Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth, so help me God!\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And now to the Classroom situation and please read what I say diligently and if there are any questions, please do not hesitate to call\u00a0 me on 613-747-2272.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Genesis of the Tamil Crisis:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The minority Tamils (12.6%)\u00a0 have been wanting to rule over the majority Sinhalese (74%) ever since the 1940s, or may be many more years prior to that.<\/p>\n

    They tried every shenanigan under the sun to achieve that,\u00a0 The most glaring incident was when Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was in the mode of pre-Independence negotiations with the British in 1944 the 10% Tamil minority demanded 50-50 % sharing of legislative and executive powers entrenched in the new Constitution with the 70% majority Sinhalese..\u00a0 That is when not a single Tamil had been hurt by the Sinhalese, nor a Sinhalese by a Tamil.<\/p>\n

    Garnett, no Tamil is going to tell you this Tamil FACT,\u00a0 here\u00a0 it is, about the Tamil cunning.\u00a0 On the eve of Independence (1948) the All Ceylon Tamil Congress led by lawyer G.G.Ponnambalam, put forward to the Soulbury Commission a scheme of representation in the proposed Legislature of Independent Ceylon (Sri Lanka), which he with his obvious macabre sense of humour dubbed it as balanced representation\u201d.\u00a0 This scheme was that the island should be divided into 100 territorial constituencies for an assembly of 100 members.\u00a0 That of these constituencies 50 should be demarcated to 50 general seats\u00a0 while the remaining 50 to be allocated to the members of the minorities (vide Paragraph 254 of the Soulbury Report).<\/p>\n

    Lo behold, it was only when the Lord Soulbury Commissioners put on their thinking-caps and\u00a0 pointed out the obvious that if 50 seats were assured to the minorities but the remainder left open to anyone to contest, the Sinhalese\u00a0 who had always been and still are the majority group, might by loss of one of these seats be converted\u00a0 into a minority.\u201d<\/p>\n

    This cunning fox G.G. Ponnambalam then magnanimously amended his proposal to one for 50 seats for the Sinhalese and 50 seats for the minorities.\u00a0 But the catch was that any one ethnic community should only have less than 50% of the seats in the Cabinet.\u00a0 Translating this into numbers meant that the the Sinhalese who were 70% of the population could only have 4 seats in a Cabinet of 10. So the bottom line was they still wanted to undermine the majority Sinhalese\u00a0 so that they can empower themselves to rule over the majority Sinhalese.\u00a0 So what they couldn\u2019t achieve with cunning they wanted to achieve with guns, bullets, claymore mines, land mines and suicide bombers for 27 blooding years and they failed finally on the 19th May 2009 when the terrorist leader\u00a0 Velupillai Prabhakaran was shot dead on the Nandikadal lagoon sands.\u00a0 Hallelujah!, I say.<\/p>\n

    No\u201d, said the Soulbury Commission on Ponnambalam\u2019s proposals and this rascally Tamil lawyer, who was cunning as a fox had to give up his smart-alec ideas to find a way to rule the majority Sinhalese.\u00a0 Did you know that Garnett?\u00a0 And they are still trying with gunny-bags filled with lies to take you and other parliamentarians down the garden path.\u00a0 And I give them credit as they have succeeded doing just that hundreds of times teasing you all with their ballots. Most of the Liberals, Conservatives and NDPiers\u00a0 were suckers to their ploys. Ummmm\u2026.too bad. They sold their souls to get the Tamil votes to find a seat in Canada Parliament\u2019s chambers by dividing Sri Lanka.\u00a0 That is a No..No, Garnett.\u00a0 Don\u2019t even go there<\/p>\n

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    1. Who are these Tamils?:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Dravidian invaders and mercenaries were the first Tamils who arrived on the island from South India, their Motherland, just 18 salt-water miles away in the Palk Straits.<\/p>\n

      Since the 3rd century BC there had been 17 invasions of the Tamil-speaking Dravidians to the island when Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa were the capitals of<\/p>\n

      Sinhalese kingdoms.\u00a0 These invasions were violent and when the\u00a0 Dravidians were defeated and chased back to India some stayed back and settled in the Jaffna peninsula.<\/p>\n

      The question that may be going through your mind is, were their Sinhala people in the Jaffna peninsula before the Tamil invasions,\u00a0 Yes, says historians<\/p>\n

      H.W.Codrington (British), Fr. S.G. Perera (Sinhalese) and Mudaliyar C. Rasanayagam (Tamil). They clearly say that the Jaffna peninsula was peopled by the Sinhalese people before the 6th century which have been confirmed by archaeological evidence.<\/p>\n

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      1. If so, how come the Jaffna Peninsula is now peopled by the Tamils, almost entirely? Were there ethnic cleansing?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        That is easy to answer. The Tamils of the Jaffna peninsula were maestros of ethnic cleansing.\u00a0 Between 1971 and 1981, they terrorized and chased away 27,000 Sinhalese people who lived in the peninsula for generations.\u00a0 They were the bakers, masons and carpenters, and so forth.<\/p>\n

        In August 1977, 400 Sinhalese lecturers and undergraduates at the Jaffna University campus were stoned and chased out by the Tamil separatists.\u00a0 They were bused south escorted by the army and police, lying on the floors to dodge the hail of rocks and stones.\u00a0 And that was ethnic cleansing of the Sinhalese by the separatist Tamils to purify the Jaffna University to make it an all Tamil University campus.\u00a0 And mind you Tamil students walked the portals of the Universities in the South unharassed by the Sinhalese.\u00a0 Did you know that Garnett? \u00a0Ce la vie!<\/em><\/p>\n

        In October 1990, 100,000 Muslims were given 48 hours to get out of the north\u00a0 by the Tamil Tiger terrorists leaving all their valuables and gold at the nearest mosque, making Idi Amin of Uganda look like an angel who gave three months for the Ugandan-Indians to leave Uganda.\u00a0 That was ethnic cleansing of the Muslims by the Tamil separatists.\u00a0 This act was brutal.<\/p>\n

        You know what Garnett, would you allow visitors to your home, after enjoying yours and your wife\u2019s hospitality demand that you all get out of your house claiming that it is owned by the visitors from now on.\u00a0 Would you leave your home without a fight?\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 I would kick arse and ask them to bugger-off.\u00a0 That is exactly what happened to the Sinhalese living in the North of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 These Tamils who are demanding their mono-ethnic, racist, separate, Tamil state, Eelam, should be asked to get back to where they came from. In their case Tamil Nadu, their Motherland where 71 million of their kith and kin live , if they have difficulty to live in harmony with the Sinhalese and Muslims.\u00a0 Did you know that 54% of the Tamil population live in the South right now in harmony with the majority Sinhalese without bellyaching that they are been persecuted and discriminated by the Sinhalese.\u00a0 Strange, isn’t it!.<\/p>\n

        4, The riots in Colombo on 24 July 1983, opened the floodgates around the world to accommodate the Tamils\u00a0 who were practically flying and sailing in rickety boats to the west seeking refuge and greener pastures bypassing their Motherland, India.<\/strong><\/p>\n

        Well Garnett, this incident happened four years before you were born, when the Tamils got the brunt of it.\u00a0 Did any Tamil explain to you what really happened?\u00a0 Did any Tamil tell you that the riots was a God\u2019s send for them as 90 percents of the Tamils who landed their feet on Canadian soil saying that they were Convention refugees running away from persecution and discrimination by the Sinhalese, wouldn\u2019t have had a snowball’s\u00a0 chance in hell, if they had tried to immigrate to Canada on the point system.\u00a0 That was the rub Garnett,\u00a0 By then I was working for the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans at 200 Kent Street in his Communications Directorate setting up mini-Fisheries Museums, Interpretation Centers and travelling exhibitions across Canada to promote\u00a0 Canadian Fisheries and fish.<\/p>\n

        Here’s the story.<\/strong><\/p>\n

        In the 1970s and 80s the Northern Sri Lankans, Tamils as well as the<\/p>\n

        Sinhalese were sitting on a powder keg, which was waiting to blow up any time because of the harassment, terrorizing, killings and ethnic cleansing by the Tamil Tiger separatist terrorists who perfected the suicide bombers body pack.\u00a0 It was a matter of time and this ominous day approached on Saturday, 23rd July of 1983.\u00a0 Jaffna was quiet that evening and it was another day of alertness at the Army camp at Gurunagar keeping an eye on the Tamil Tigers movements and where the next ambush of the military would happen and the next bomb would be detonated by the Tamil Tigers targeting the Army soldiers.<\/p>\n

        That evening Brigadier Balthazar directed Major De Silva to activate the commandos and special troops who were to lay in ambush to get Sellakili of the Tamil Tigers.\u00a0 As the laid out plan a convoy left Gurunagar at one minute past midnight. \u00a0The Code name for this patrol was Four-Four-Charlie.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

        In the meantime Tamil Tiger Sellakili had sworn to avenge the death of another Tamil Tiger, Seelan, by the Army, and had done a careful study of the movements of the army patrols.\u00a0 He found that the maximum intensity of such patrols were between 10:00 in the evening and 2:00 in the early mornings.<\/p>\n

        On 23rd July night Sellakili deployed 25 terrorists in battle fatigues at Tinnaveli on the Palali-Jaffna Road, where the road had been dug to install some telecommunication equipment.\u00a0 Four mines were placed in one such excavation.\u00a0 The plunger stolen from the Kankesanthurai Cement Factory was placed on the balcony of a house nearby.\u00a0 The wiring was connected.\u00a0 Machine gun nests were placed near the exploder.\u00a0 The Tamil Tiger killer squad were placed on both sides of the road and Sellakili was present.\u00a0 Every Tamil Tiger was armed with SMGs and repeat shot guns, Chinese assault rifles and a SLR of Indian manufacture and homemade hand grenades.\u00a0 This armoury did not fall from heaven onto their laps.<\/p>\n

        They were bought with monies collected by the Tamil\u00a0 Diaspora mainly by extortion of their own people.\u00a0 This went on in Canada\u00a0 quite a lot.<\/p>\n

        Two million dollars were collected each month for 13 years\u00a0 in Canada during Jean Chretien and Paul Martin\u2019s Liberal administration to stuff the Tamil Tiger war chest for this very purpose.\u00a0 So Canada stands guilty for aiding and abetting that nasty Tamil separatist war in Sri Lanka,\u00a0\u00a0 No ifs or buts.<\/p>\n

        The Army convoy had a Jeep bearing Number AY 4889 and a Tata Benz half truck with the number plate 26 Sri 3193.\u00a0 Within five minutes of the convoy leaving Urumpirai the Jeep slowed down near Tinnaveli because of the obstruction on the road due to the Telecommunication equipment.\u00a0 While it passed the excavation the exploder set off with a loud BANG, with a thunderous explosion, The Army convoy fought back, killing Sellakili but 13 of the brave Army soldiers died in this attack -and thus exploded the powder keg\u00a0 they were sitting on.<\/p>\n

        Garnett, I have gone to an extensive explanation to tell you that the Sinhalese didn\u2019t go berserk and rioted in Colombo to get at the Tamils without a good reason.\u00a0\u00a0 This was the result of the natural Law of Cause and Effect of that well planned ambush. Would I blame them? Of course not.\u00a0 Enough was enough for the Sinhalese, and they were not going to take such gruesome killings of their people anymore.\u00a0 Don\u2019t expect the Sinhalese to be Saints as they are not as they are human being just like the Tamils wanting to wake up the next morning to see the sun rise and smell the jasmines and roses in their gardens.\u00a0 And have a good cup of the best Ceylon Orange Pekoe tea in the morning to begin their day.<\/p>\n

        When the 13 bodies of the soldiers were brought to Colombo for burial, the families of the dead wanted the Army to hand the bodies to take them to their homes in the remote villages for burial. They were not given that privilege to honour their brave sons and brothers who died to save their country from the Tamil terrorist armed forces,\u00a0 And it was a double whammy and it was then that riots broke out going after the Tamils and their shops letting out their anger and frustration.<\/p>\n

        So let us Canadians cut out from our conscience to be bleeding-hearts and paint the Tamil separatists lily-white, as if they were innocent Babes in the Woods.\u00a0 These Tamil Tigers were not backyard school boy fighters warring with stones and catapults, but were well trained armed fighters with sophisticated armouries aided and abetted by foreign country parliamentarians who were after the Tamil votes in\u00a0 their countries, especially in the west, like Canada, where the Tamils took refuge saying they\u00a0 were persecuted and discriminated by the Sinhalese.\u00a0 Garnett, that it a load of codswallop.<\/p>\n

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        1. Were the Tamils really persecuted and discriminated by the Sinhalese for them to come on their knees to Canada seeking refuge with their eyes dripping crocodile tears.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Well Garnett, let me give you the FACTS and you better be judge and jury on these vile Tamil Fairy Tales that you hear from the Tamil refugees and their lawyers.<\/p>\n

          As far as I am concerned, I say to these Tamils, What? You being persecuted and discriminated by my people—-my foot, you are a bunch of liars.<\/p>\n

          Here are some FACTS and there are oodles more.<\/p>\n

          \u00a0The minority<\/strong> Tamils were the \u2018privileged\u2019\u00a0 community<\/strong> for 131 years of British rule and several years after independence, and the majority Sinhalese were the \u2018wronged\u2019 community<\/strong> for all those years.\u00a0 And every Tamil refugee knows it.<\/p>\n

          The day of the riots on 24 July 1983, the Inspector General of Police of Sri Lanka was Mr. Rudra Rajasingham, a Tamil<\/strong>;\u00a0 the Attorney General of Sri Lanka was\u00a0 Mr Siva Pasupathy, a Jaffna\u00a0 Tamil<\/strong>; and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka was Mr. S. Sharvananda also a Jaffna Tami<\/strong>l.\u00a0 In my vocabulary all these appointments do not translate into that Tamils were being persecuted and discriminated.\u00a0 What about you Garnett?\u00a0 I call it Hogwash!<\/p>\n

          On the day of the riots several Sri Lankan diplomats were Tamils and the High Commissioner\u00a0 for the United Kingdom was Mr. Murti, a Tamil. Go figure out whether these diplomatic appointments\u00a0 were construed as persecution and discrimination of the Tamils.\u00a0\u00a0 What a bunch of stinking baloney!<\/p>\n

          So the Tamils say that they were running away from discrimination and persecution.\u00a0 What a bunch of Humbugs, especially, when the 1983 July riots happened in Colombo, the predominantly Tamil Jaffna District had 555 government schools for a Tamil student population of 207,524, and the capital city Colombo had only 251 such schools for 231,690 multi-ethnic students. And more over 41% of these Jaffna Districts Tamil schools had government approved science laboratories compared to an island average of 19.6%.<\/p>\n

          So who are the Tamil Diaspora trying to hoodwink? They certainly succeeded with the Kenny\u2019s, the Obhrai\u2019s, the Karygiannis\u2019s, the Martin\u2019s, the Harper\u2019s, the Layton\u2019s, the Minna\u2019s, the Sgro\u2019s, the Oliphant\u2019s the Lee\u2019s, the Cannon\u2019s, the Dewar\u2019s, the Brown\u2019s and many more Conservative, Liberal and NDP bleeding-hearts.\u00a0 Certainly not me Garnett.\u00a0 I was a card carrying Conservative from Preston Manning\u2019s Reform days, but not anymore. Gave it up when Stephen Harper had his hissy-fit and boycotted the Commonwealth Conference in Colombo, and sent Deepak Obhrai to represent Canada, who acted like a High School bully when he laid a wreath for the Tamil Tigers who lost their lives in the war at Elephant Pass.\u00a0 He was asked not to lay the wreath by a Sri Lankan official, but he did it anyway, bullying his way like an arrogant Canadian.\u00a0 And when challenged, he had the audacity to say that it was a neutral spot, to lay the wreath. What a Dodo!\u00a0 He certainly did not do good for the image of an honest Canadian parliamentarian.\u00a0 That incident stank to high heaven!<\/p>\n

          Garnett, Elephant Pass had three major battles where the Sri Lankan Army got a whipping during the second battle.<\/p>\n

          The First Elephant Pass Battle<\/strong> was in July 1991 (Code named \u2018Operation Balawegaya<\/em><\/strong>\u2019).\u00a0 The Tamil Tigers made a tactical withdrawal on August 9.<\/p>\n

          The Second Elephant Pass Battle<\/strong> (Code\u00a0 named \u2018Operation Unceasing Waves III<\/em><\/strong>) of April 22, 2000, was when 758 Government soldiers were killed, 2,368 had been wounded and 349 went missing and Elephant Pass fell to the Tamil Tigers.<\/p>\n

          During the Third Elephant Pass Battle, <\/strong>the Sri Lanka Armed forces recaptured Elephant Pass from the Tamil Tigers on January 9, 2009.<\/p>\n

          That’s how disingenuous the Conservatives were to support the Tamil separatists cause for the want of their votes. I was sick with anger and Stephen Harper\u2019s hissy-fit to boycott the Commonwealth Conference held in Colombo was one of the reasons why I gave up on the Conservatives and pledged to give up being a card carrying and a sustaining donor of the Conservative Party and not ever touch you all even with a barge pole, nor drop my vote for the Conservatives into a ballot box even while holding my nose closed.\u00a0\u00a0 Never again!\u00a0\u00a0 My mentor all through those years was Art Hanger, the MP from Alberta.\u00a0 He will\u00a0 tell you my passion for my Motherland and that I was an honest and truthful activist on this file and will damn the lying Tamil Diaspora and the Canadian parliamentarians who supported the Tamil separatist cause, notwithstanding who they are.<\/p>\n

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          1. Year 1987<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            This year, the year you were born was a momentous year for Sri Lanka on the Eelam separatist war.\u00a0 This is the year that saw\u00a0 Sri Lanka\u2019s friendly neighbour India\u2019s Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi meddling in Sri Lanka\u2019s internal affairs and playing Godfather to Tamil terrorism to appease the Tamil Nadu Government for the want of their support and to further their Monroe Doctrine\u201d\u00a0 in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n

            India is a giant looking down on the teardrop island Sri Lanka, and Sri Lanka shakes in her boots every time India coughs at her, and acts wimpish to this bully boy, and still says India is our friend\u201d.\u00a0 I am very suspicious of this \u2018good\u2019 neighbour for geopolitical reasons.\u00a0 They are a no good cunning lot.<\/p>\n

            On June 2nd, 1987, Rajiv Gandhi sent a flotilla of boats by sea with supplies to sustain the Tamils in the Jaffna peninsula which were not requested by the Sri Lanka Government..\u00a0\u00a0 Quite rightly the Government of Sri Lanka turned the boats back mid-sea..<\/p>\n

            So the friendly bully boy, India, on June 4th transgressed the Sri Lanka\u2019s sovereign airspace and flew 5 Indian Air Force Antonov-32 Transport planes escorted by 5 screaming low flying Mirage 2000s, armed with 2 Matra Magic AAMs and 3 drop tanks from Bangalore airport to drop 30 tons of \u2018relief\u2019 supplies\u2019 to feed 800,000 Tamils in the Jaffna peninsula.\u00a0 This operation was preceded by a farcical naval operation and a virtual orgy of hand-wringing and lamentation by the Indian authorities, led by Rajiv Gandhi himself, who charged Sri Lanka of deliberate starvation and genocide of Jaffna residents.\u00a0 They were upto a lot of mischief and they were a bunch of no good liars, Rajiv Gandhi and all.<\/p>\n

            On 21 May, 1991, a Tamil Tigress Dhanu got him in Sriperumbudur near Chennai by detonating her body pack while garlanding him during an election husting.\u00a0 They couldn\u2019t trust him.<\/p>\n

            Prior to 1987, Rajiv Gandhi’s mother Indira Gandhi brought over the barefooted and some in flip-flops,Tamil guerillas from North Sri Lanka in late 1983 and 84 who couldn\u2019t shoot straight, to be trained in 32 military camps in Tamil Nadu in South India and some\u00a0 up at the foothills of the Himalayas to destabilize Sri Lanka to continue its stronghold of the region as a superpower\u201d.\u00a0 The military training camps were located in places like Parangimali, Kokimalai, Kanjipuram, Sangalpattu Presawakkam, Valachchari, Thanikramam, Uttar<\/em> Pradesh <\/em>close to the foothills of the Himalayas and Green Park <\/em>in New Delhi The largest Tamil Tiger camp was located at Kumbarapatti<\/em> in the Salem District.<\/p>\n

            India graduated these guerillas as an armed fighting force\u00a0 with military and intelligence gathering training and sent them back to the Jaffna Peninsula with money stashed in their pockets, in military fatigues and jackboots, cradling AK47s like babies in their arms, and festoons of live bullets around their necks.\u00a0 A total of 3179 male guerillas and 184 females out of a cadre of 3363 were trained in these camps by Indira Gandhi\u2019s India under the supervision of RAW (Research and Analysis Wing).<\/p>\n

            These incidents were the precursor for the next aggression of signing the Indo-Lanka Accord which took place on 29 July 1987,\u00a0 drafted by India\u2019s Foreign Ministry to suit India\u2019s interests and not that of Tamil Nadu which had 55 million Tamils, the kith and kin of the Sri Lankan Tamils who were fighting for their mono-ethnic, racist, separate state, Eelam.\u00a0 To intimidate Sri Lanka, Rajiv Gandhi had an Indian War ship parked out in the international waters opposite Sri Lanka\u2019s capital, Colombo, during the period of the signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord.<\/p>\n

            It was on 24 June,1987,\u00a0 when the Tamil separatists in Ottawa threatened to blow up the 15 storey building, the Centennial Towers at 200 Kent Street, because I had been hired to work for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.\u00a0 It was a major Security concern for the Ottawa Police and other groups involved in national security and I was asked to attend a security meeting by my Director General of the Department\u2019s\u2019 Communications Directorate.<\/p>\n

            If the Ottawa\u2019s separatist-Tamils thought that they could shut me up with\u00a0 such intimidation and I would put on my roller skates and roll down Kent Street to search for a place to hide, or hide under a Department\u2019s desk, it didn\u2019t happen. And all I could tell\u00a0 these stupid Tamils was Boooo… You got the wrong Asoka Weerasinghe to intimidate\u201d.<\/p>\n

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            1. Human Rights in Sri Lanka<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Your statement to Parliament on November 20th, 2017 said – The Liberals promised to support justice and reconciliation, to address the terrible crimes committed at the end of the civil war.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

              For God\u2019s sake Garnett, if terrible crimes (were) committed at the end of the war\u201d, then the Canadian Liberals stand guilty for aiding and abetting that war.\u00a0 Letting the Tamil Diaspora collect 2 million dollars every month, sometimes more for 13 years to stuff the Tamil Tiger war-chest to buy sophisticated weapons to fight that war and kill innocent civilians, Sinhalese, Muslims as well as their own Tamil people;<\/strong><\/p>\n

              When on May 6, 2000 two cabinet Ministers, Paul Martin (Finance) and Maria Minna (CIDA) and 11 backbenchers patronized a $60-a- plate fund raising dinner organized by FACT in Toronto to fund the Tamil separatist war;<\/strong><\/p>\n

              While every western country patted Sri Lanka on her back and said, Good show, way to go for getting rid of terrorism and the most ruthless terrorists in the world at that\u201d,\u00a0 but Canada didn\u2019t and Lawrence Cannon, the Foreign Minister put out the most feeble and pathetic Press Release from the Foreign Ministry not even acknowledging\u00a0 the risk taking valour of the Sri Lankan soldiers who lost thousands of their comrades to the Tamil Tiger bombs and bullets to give back the right-to-life<\/em> to 21 million\u00a0 Sri Lankans that was hijacked by the Tamil Tigers for 27 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

              Garnett, do you know why that pathetic Press Release? The Foreign Affairs Ministry were worried that if Canada had patted Sri Lanka\u2019s back for getting rid of the Tamil Tiger terrorists, the Liberal Government would have had to cope with 20,000 Tamils descending on Sussex Drive the following day under a red sky of Tamil Tiger flags, and closing the road to the Governor General and the Lester Pearson Building.\u00a0 And they would have had to cope with the Major Hill Park, the Underground Parking space at the National Art Center, and the National Art Gallery, and every nook and corner of the Byward Market and along Sussex Drive\u00a0 been converted into toilets and urinals, and the City of Ottawa would have had to spend another unbudgeted $90,000 to clean the area, and pay overtime for security and Ottawa\u2019s Transport Driver\u2019s, et cetera, as they had to in early months of 2009.\u00a0 Remember!\u00a0 That is why Garnett.\u00a0 In such a situation the Tamil Diaspora and Tamil refugees rule the roost being Kings and Queens of the day.\u00a0 No Ifs and Buts. \u00a0And that is how the cookie crumbles being stupid for trying to be good samaritans with bleeding hearts and opening the floodgates for these Tamil economic refugees who said that they were running away from discrimination and persecution back home. So give me a break, Garnett!<\/strong><\/p>\n

              Ummm…Garnett,\u00a0 your statement in parliament was a heavy dose of hear say<\/strong>, and you seem to be hard on the Sri Lanka Government and the soldiers, the only country in the world that annihilated terrorism\u00a0 militarily single handed. And now the world is telling the Sri Lankan soldiers you shouldn’t have done it.\u00a0 It was criminal and we are going to punish you all for that by hauling you lot to the International Criminal Court.\u00a0 You all should have let the Tamil Tigers go on killing innocent people and maiming for life thousands of others.\u00a0 You have crippled the military weapons black-market industry by ending this war. That is a tough call to deal with.<\/p>\n

              Garnett, since this Lesson 101 is getting lengthy, let me finish it by discussing the Human Rights concerns that you have about Sri Lanka\u2019s government in this war.\u00a0 Let me deal this subject in point form, honestly and to the best of my ability.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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              1. This Tamil Tiger terrorist war was not fought by either party according to the Manual for Dummies – How to win a war without killing a single person. <\/strong>\u00a0Such a\u00a0 Manual was not in existence as a guide then, and nor is there now;<\/li>\n
              2. At a luncheon meeting with Ottawa\u2019s Amnesty International Director at the Sri<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                Lanka High Commissioner\u2019s (H.C.Walter Rupesinghe) residence on Range\u00a0\u00a0Road where I was invited to join them,\u00a0 the AI representative tells us,We don\u2019t like the Sri Lankan Government using excessive force on the\u00a0 Tamil Tigers\u201d.<\/p>\n

                What, \u00a0you must be kidding\u201d, I retorted.. Listen, this is not a Christian war\u00a0when you are expected to turn the other cheek when you are slapped.\u00a0 When\u00a0the Tamil Tiger is pointing the barrel of his Kalashnikov at the heart of my\u00a0 soldier, I don’t expect him to point his gun at the kneecap of the Tamil\u00a0Tiger.\u00a0 I tell my soldier,\u00a0\u00a0 shoot the bastard before he gets you.\u201d\u00a0 The High\u00a0Commissioner was kicking me under the table to stop going after this AI fool.<\/p>\n

                This luncheon meeting took place in the summer of 1991.<\/p>\n

                  \n
                1. It is a pity that UN\u2019s Council on Human Rights had decided to concentrate\u00a0 on the last five months of the 27 year long war.\u00a0 I almost begin to wonder whether\u00a0 they were\u00a0 covering the behinds of the worst human rights violators,\u00a0 the Tamil Tiger Terrorists, who killed, massacred, chopped with machetes as in a butcher’s shop chopping innocent unarmed fisher and farmer families sleeping in their adobe huts (Dollar & Kent Farms in Vavuniya, 30.11 1984);<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  like plucking infants from their mother\u2019s breasts\u00a0 and\u00a0 flinging them onto\u00a0\u00a0hard charnockite rocks and cracking their skulls and enjoying watching the\u00a0infant\u2019s\u00a0 ketchup blood oozing out of the little skulls; Like 6 Madhu pilgrims\u00a0 abducted by Tamil Tigers and executed by the Tamil Tigers (20.12. 1985);<\/p>\n

                  Like Tamil Tiger armed terrorists entering the village in Aranthalawa,\u00a0\u00a0Amparai, and slashing the necks of 28 villagers (7.2.1987);\u00a0 Like stopping a\u00a0bus taking 32 novice Buddhist monks on a pilgrimage, pulling them out and\u00a0 \u00a0 shooting 30 of them dead\u00a0 and hacking the chief monk with machetes in\u00a0\u00a0Aranthalawa, Amparai, ( 2.6. 1987); Like opening fire at Muslims who were\u00a0praying in Jumma and Hissainia Mosques, in Kathankudy and killing 103\u00a0and wounding 70 others\u00a0 (3.8.1990).<\/p>\n

                  So would you say that focusing on the last 5 months of the war by the\u00a0 human rights bleeding-hearts was to try and nail the Sri Lankan army who won the war against the the Tamil Terrorists on 19 May 2009, and\u00a0 \u00a0go soft of the most violent human rights violators\u00a0 in recent history?<\/p>\n

                  This I say was a conspiracy against Sri Lanka in the first order.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I say\u00a0POX to\u00a0 all who want to haul the Sri Lankan soldiers who won the war for\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 21 million Sri Lankans and gave them back their primary human right,\u00a0 their right-to-life<\/em><\/strong> which was hijacked by the Tamil Tiger terrorists for 27\u00a0 \u00a0 bloodying years.<\/p>\n

                  The Sri Lankan soldiers who were\u00a0 angels and life savours of 295,873\u00a0 Tamil civilians who were rescued by them from the clutches of the\u00a0 Tamil Tigers who used them as a human shield for 30 months during the\u00a0 final days of the war, who were herded like unwashed cattle from\u00a0the west coast to the east coast under the scorching Kilinochchi-Jaffna\u00a0 \u00a0sun.<\/p>\n

                  No Human Rights advocates talk about it nor does the Canadian\u00a0Parliamentarians.\u00a0 Would you be the honest one and bell the cat.<\/p>\n

                  And let them also know that it would have been easy for these soldiers to\u00a0shoot them, but they didn\u2019t.\u00a0These Sri Lankan soldiers also were part of the massive team who\u00a0 \u00a0prepared a million meals a day – hearty breakfasts, lunches and dinners\u00a0 \u00a0to feed these 295,873 rescued Tamils who were housed in temporary\u00a0 refugee tent villages.\u00a0 No one wants to talk of these amazing\u00a0 \u00a0humanitarian efforts by the Sri Lankan soldiers.\u00a0\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 I damn these\u00a0 disingenuous\u00a0 nasty conspirators\u00a0 who paint black on these heroic\u00a0 soldiers who happen to be my heroes too.<\/p>\n

                  Will you be the one to take that honour and announce these humanitarian\u00a0 acts during the parliamentary debates when there will be much lyingdribble spoken of Sri Lanka and her soldiers to buy the Tamil votes.\u00a0 As\u00a0you know Garnett, all political parties depend on the bloc Tamil votes innine ridings in the Greater Toronto Area, and the political candidates\u00a0 \u00a0become suckers to the Tamil mono-ethnic, racist, separatist Eelam cause.<\/p>\n

                  And they sell their souls to hurt my Motherland with whom I am still\u00a0 \u00a0romancing with after being out of that island for 61 years,<\/p>\n

                  Do it,Garnett, and I will be the first Sri Lankan-Canadian who would be at\u00a0 your door step to garland you with affection for being an honourable politician who is honest and give me back the trust in our politicians.<\/p>\n

                  Politicians like Stephen Harper, Jason Kenney, Jim Karygiannis, Paul\u00a0Martin, Maria Minna, Jack Layton, Paul Dewar, Deepak Obhrai,\u00a0Rathika Sitsabaiesan killed it for me.<\/p>\n

                    \n
                  1. So these Human Rights bleeding-hearts keep pulling numbers from\u00a0 the air and are having fun which varies from 7,000 to 100,000 swearing\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 had been killed by the Sri Lankan armed forces from January 1st to May 19th of 2009.\u00a0 This is insane.\u00a0 I am not sure who kept count and\u00a0 \u00a0 whether they did it with an abacus or on a battery operated calculator\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0or was it on their 10 fingers.?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                    This bizarre numbers game prompted me to ask in a letter from the\u00a0\u00a0British MP Siobhain McDonagh for Mitcham and Morden in Surrey\u00a0 what she had smoked when she woke up that eventful day inSeptember 2011, when she told the British House of Commons that100,000 Tamil Tigers and civilians had perished between January and\u00a0May of 2009, by the hands of the Sri Lanka\u00a0 Armed Forces.\u00a0 Not a word from her.\u00a0 Was she oonstruck, crack-brained or gone barmy\u00a0 \u00a0that morning.\u00a0 But what I do know is that she has hundreds of Tamils\u00a0 in her constituency and she desperately want their votes.<\/p>\n

                    Garnett, if you are going to play Russian roulette with the dignity of the\u00a0Sri Lankan soldiers, you may want to ask from those who throw the\u00a0numbers of Tamils who died alleged to be at the hands of theSri Lankan Armed soldiers:<\/p>\n

                      \n
                    1. e.<\/strong> Who is it that did the counting of the the numbers that seems to beaccepted as real.\u00a0 Then ask them Show me the bodies, show me\u00a0 \u00a0the skeletons\u201d;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                      f,\u00a0 40,000 bodies is slightly more than Alberta\u2019s small Town of Spruce\u00a0rove\u2019s population (36,125 in 2016 census), the home of Carla<\/p>\n

                      MacLeod, the member of the 2010 Canada’s Women’s Ice Hockey\u00a0Team. Let\u2019 be real, Garnett.\u00a0 Where the heck can you hide all the\u00a0 people of Spruce Grove, that easily in\u00a0 five months.\u00a0 You tell me as I\u00a0 would\u00a0 love to know.<\/p>\n

                        \n
                      1. If we arrive at the conclusion that the Army commanders who got\u00a0 the Tamil Tigers running for their lives during the last five months\u00a0 \u00a0before they were annihilated on 19th May 2009, had no magic wands\u00a0 that would with one swish across the dead bodies with the words ABRACADABRA make them disappear through the thin veil of\u00a0 red kabook dust, then what are the next possibilities to get rid of 40,000 dead bodies in a jiffy;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                          \n
                        1. \u00a0<\/strong>h. <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Was it then that the 40,000 bodies were buried along the road toVictory, but here is the downer. No one complained of the stench of the\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0decaying bodies, nor by the Tamils on the retreat\u00a0 saying that they\u00a0 \u00a0were forced by the Sri Lankan soldiers\u00a0 to claw the kabook earth to dig\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 deep\u00a0 holes to bury the bodies.\u00a0 Nor did AI or Human Rights Watch\u00a0 publish photos for the world showing 10 backhoes digging deep holes\u00a0 \u00a0 to bury the bodies, neither did Ban -Ki Moon or Navi Pillai of UNHRC\u00a0 in Geneva mention it.\u00a0 We want evidence, you want evidence and so\u00a0 \u00a0 do I of this horrendous story of this abuse of human rights. Let’s ask\u00a0 \u00a0Ban Ki-Moon\u2019s panelists Marzuki Darusman, Steven Ratner or Jasmin Sooka of the Darusman Report fame.\u00a0 They should know it\u00a0<\/strong>Well then, what would have been the next possibility to get rid of\u00a0 the 40,000 dead bodies in a short time! Would it have been that they\u00a0 were incinerated in pyres of tyres and trunks of coconut palms.\u00a0 But\u00a0 we were not shown by the enthusiastic film makers, like Chanel 4 of\u00a0 \u00a0plumes of black smoke snaking high into the sky and AI and Human\u00a0 Rights\u00a0 Watch or the UN agents complaining of the stench and showed\u00a0 us photos of them wearing masks to keep the stench\u00a0 streaming into their nostrils and into the lungs and getting sick.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                          Nor did\u00a0 Ban Ki-Moon\u2019s expert panel that produced the Darusman Report –\u00a0 Marzurki Darusman, Steven Ratner or Yasmin Sooka weigh\u00a0 \u00a0in on it.\u00a0 So what\u2019s next, Garnett?<\/p>\n

                            \n
                          1. \u00a0 I can only think of one more possibility, and let me put it to you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                            Were the 40,000 dead Tamil bodies transported in fast moving\u00a0 \u00a0fiberglass boats in relays and dumped into the deep waters of the\u00a0Bay of Bengal dead at night,There is one hitch on that theory, though plausible.\u00a0\u00a0 Days, weeks\u00a0and months\u00a0 after the Eelam War IV ended, not a single body hadbeen washed ashore along\u00a0 the Eastern border of India along the\u00a0Bay of\u00a0 Bengal like Chennai, Kumbakonam, Pondicherry,\u00a0 Cudalloe,\u00a0 \u00a0 et cetera.\u00a0 Nor along the west coast of Myanmar like Myaungmya,\u00a0 Gwo, Sandoway, and Rameel.<\/p>\n

                            If you ever solve this heinous mystery, do let me know without\u00a0 \u00a0parroting what others say without satisfying yourself with substantial\u00a0 \u00a0evidence.\u00a0 The bottom line is to tell them, Show me the bodies or\u00a0 \u00a0their skeletons\u00a0 or any other forensic evidence, then I will believe\u00a0You!\u201d<\/p>\n

                             <\/p>\n

                              \n
                            1. \u00a0This whole exercise based on the Darusman Report which is\u00a0 \u00a0used as the Bible to nail Sri Lanka\u2019s armed forces, the only national\u00a0 \u00a0army in the world that whipped the most ruthless terrorists in the\u00a0 world, the Tamil Tigers,\u00a0 says that their credible sources are\u00a0 \u00a0 protected by the UN confidentiality Clause until 2031.\u00a0 And here\u00a0 \u00a0lies the\u00a0 gutless, spineless HUMBUGS.\u00a0 Why, what is their problem?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                              When 2031 comes around Ban Ki-Moon who appointed the panel\u00a0 of experts will be 87 years old, Marzuki Darusman will be 86,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Steven R, Ratner, and Yasmin Sooka,\u00a0 hopefully are young enough\u00a0to be still around in 2031 .<\/p>\n

                              The chances are that the Sri Lankan Army personnel whose dignity\u00a0was assaulted by the UNHRC will get a chance to challenge them\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 in court to prove that the UNs panel of experts had done a con job,\u00a0 \u00a0a botched up job on them which hauled them to an International\u00a0 \u00a0Criminal Court of Law to charge them on Human Rights violations.<\/p>\n

                              That will be when the fireworks start, if it did happen, Garnett.<\/p>\n

                              Stay tuned as UKs Lord Naseby\u2019s well researched assertion that\u00a0 \u00a0the Vanni death toll maximum is 7.000 to 8,000 and not 40,000 as\u00a0 \u00a0reported in the Darusman Report by Ban Ki-Moon\u2019s Panel of\u00a0Experts – the Three Musketeers, Darusman- Ratner-Sooka. It will\u00a0 be hard for the UN to dismiss his unchallengeable position as his\u00a0revelations are based on sound diplomatic dispatches sent from\u00a0Colombo by the then British military attache\u00a0 Lt. Colonel Anton\u00a0Gash to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.<\/p>\n

                              Stay tuned Garnett, it is going to be interesting as there will be a lot\u00a0of rotten eggs slapped on so many embarrased lobster-red faces.<\/p>\n

                              I hope my Lesson 101 on Sri Lanka\u2019s Eelam War IV<\/strong> gave you\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 some FACTS to think about, and I hope you will be an honest<\/p>\n

                              Judge and Jury on the issue.<\/p>\n

                              Being December, Garnett,\u00a0 I wish you a Happy Holiday Season\u00a0and may Christmas Memories that are rich and deep, be yours to<\/p>\n

                              savour and to keep.<\/p>\n

                              And may 2018 bless you with wisdom to make you a rare honest\u00a0 young politician in Canada.\u00a0 Believe me, we need them.<\/p>\n

                               <\/p>\n

                              Sincerely,<\/p>\n

                              Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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